Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (Beyond the point of no return...)
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The greatest passer in UT history, and three Heisman Trophy winners (representing the highest impact football player in college football) have come from outside of the Top 35 in Texas. There is lots of talent outside of the Top 35.
That's just one year. And I have a hard time seeing the 17th (or thereabout) rated class in the nation as a disaster. That would make the other 107 or so FBS universities' 2021 recruiting classes disasters, or 87% of all major colleges. There are currently Top 10 teams that haven't had a recruiting class rated that high in the last five seasons, or maybe ever.
I think you've already seen a bigger recruiting disaster than this year. It was the four straight top 5 UT recruiting classes from 2009-2012. Those were bad recruiting classes. Only time will tell if the 2021 will be as bad as any of those on the actual college playing field, where how good they are in college is actually determined.
If UT can sustain even a top 15 team in the polls, they can very plausibly build from there to loftier aspirations in the polls and recruiting ratings. And it doesn't take elite rated classes to get to the top 15 in the polls.
We haven't lived in the on-the-field neighborhood of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, or even LSU (until maybe this year) in a long time. And it will be extremely hard to recruit like them until we can come closer to them on the playing field.
Recruiting feeds off of what happens in college games. Turn our on-the-field performance around, and recruiting will follow, as well as coaches' careers.
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He won’t. OU will win by 20. You can play the what if game in all sorts of ways. I don’t like the “but it’s Iowa state” excuse. He’s 34-27 there. Some are impressed because of where it’s at.
. I look at it for what it is, mediocre. I also don’t understand why people assume some guy who’s never recruited at a high level will all of the sudden bring in top 3 classes. There’s absolutely no evidence that this would happen. It’s all just a prayer.
Urban stuff is an absolute gut punch, but potential CDC drama is tasty.
We're so much fun.
We're so much fun.
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Come on man, anybody who is paying attention knew Texas was going to come after UM after the first loss of the season. There was even talk of it last year. CDC didn't let the cat out of the bag. It was inevitable that this would become national news.
Soon as a HC has his fate sealed, as TH does, it takes people who pay attention a very short amount of time to hone in on the preferred replacement. Once that happens, it becomes news. That isn't CDC's fault.
Come on man, anybody who is paying attention knew Texas was going to come after UM after the first loss of the season. There was even talk of it last year. CDC didn't let the cat out of the bag. It was inevitable that this would become national news.
Soon as a HC has his fate sealed, as TH does, it takes people who pay attention a very short amount of time to hone in on the preferred replacement. Once that happens, it becomes news. That isn't CDC's fault.
but he doesn’t,
So if we have to tell him which coach to fire, then we might also have to tell him which coach to hire, so your guess matters
Dude is going to be 68. I think we missed the boat on him.
Those calls on Saturday morning weren't coming from any basements.
I know that. But I’m asking how you think people respond to that. How would you expect the fans and BMD’s to respond to a hire like Campbell or fleck?
I think he has 3-5 years left in him. He would create a winning foundation for us. We need a known winner to fix us.
If you were a CEO at Verizon that had it made, would you leave to spend your final glory years of your career trying to save MCI, or would you stay put and try to win one more championship before you sail into the sunset?
I bet I know what Saban would do. Not that we are MCI, but we are a rebuild, nonetheless.
We are a guppy and not a whale and the Big 12 is a goldfish bowl and not an ocean.
Now who wants to go bragging about swimming and diving?
Now who wants to go bragging about swimming and diving?
Texas has been operating under the optic of being scared for years.
I think Mack started it with his “scares you death”.
Texas was scared to fire Charlie.
Texas was scared not to hire Herman.
Texas was scared to put these players in there place when they made there demands.
Scared to make a decision about eyes.
Scared to tell the band to play.
Scared to kick Foster off the team.
Scared to tell players there 2nd team and not playing.
Scared to fire coach mid season.
Scared to fire a coach before doing a coaching search.
Scared to fire Shaka.
If CDC is operating out of fear? His job is pretty safe because he fits right in.
I think Mack started it with his “scares you death”.
Texas was scared to fire Charlie.
Texas was scared not to hire Herman.
Texas was scared to put these players in there place when they made there demands.
Scared to make a decision about eyes.
Scared to tell the band to play.
Scared to kick Foster off the team.
Scared to tell players there 2nd team and not playing.
Scared to fire coach mid season.
Scared to fire a coach before doing a coaching search.
Scared to fire Shaka.
If CDC is operating out of fear? His job is pretty safe because he fits right in.
You may be right. But i would compare us to AT&T instead of MCI. I was thinking maybe Saban would want to try and become the only coach to win a national championship at 3 different schools.
Campbell wants no part of this place(even though he has family here), and he has $6m buyout.
Meyer was waiting on ND.@Ketchum lets play devils advocate
we miss out on UM(pretty much the door has closed)
We keep Herman, as we dont think theres another viable option.
Kelly leaves ND in late Jan to the NFL
UM is hired by ND
What would be your first reaction?
Would you feel UM played UT
Or
UT never had a good read on Um as much as we want to say “we were in talks since Oct”
Maybe so. I don’t think people would come around on that until we start winning. It seems to me like with the exception of urban somehow happening, the stadium won’t be too full to start next year
